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varying the terms and waivers of obamacare. the number one question i get is, what can you do about it? we sent you to congress to do something about this. i have listened today and i have that we can enact new laws, that does not work if you can i get through the senate and the president himself will not sign them. we can use the power of the purse. that is pretty much dead. we have heard testimony about that. in the era of continuing resolutions we do not have a lot of options there. we could go to the court, we have heard about the standing issue. we have also even when there is standing a delay tactic leaves be, the president will termed out by the time any of these court decisions are held. we talked about elections. i think chairman i sent brought --irmaniss -- mpsu. pointcaps%id. point nvel. nl. -- is therei anything else that we could do? >> it does paint a dire picture. as we said before i have encouraged members to consider member standing. the most troubling thing, i islished an article -- what fascinating about it i
varying the terms and waivers of obamacare. the number one question i get is, what can you do about it? we sent you to congress to do something about this. i have listened today and i have that we can enact new laws, that does not work if you can i get through the senate and the president himself will not sign them. we can use the power of the purse. that is pretty much dead. we have heard testimony about that. in the era of continuing resolutions we do not have a lot of options there. we could...
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they are not the same as obamacare. but what is striking about the comparison is that president lincoln welcomed the involvement of congress. welcome to the congress to ratify what he had done to pass the statute justify eating. he was concerned that they had overstepped the constitutional authority and welcom welcomed cs ratification of its action. president obama by contrast actually threatened to veto the statute that would have ratified his action. in fact i think is a startling contrast i was trying to bring out in that op-ed. .. they have offered despite two years of people like me raising this issue with the irs is trying to do is illegal. they have yet to offer one shred of, when statutory provision or one shred of evidence that supports their claim that the statute authorizes tax credit through exchanges of established by the federal government under section 1321 or that it was congresses intent for the statute to authorize tax credit through those exchanges. so there's a lot more to be said about all of this.
they are not the same as obamacare. but what is striking about the comparison is that president lincoln welcomed the involvement of congress. welcome to the congress to ratify what he had done to pass the statute justify eating. he was concerned that they had overstepped the constitutional authority and welcom welcomed cs ratification of its action. president obama by contrast actually threatened to veto the statute that would have ratified his action. in fact i think is a startling contrast i...
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obamacare is the wrong solution for both. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? mr. poe: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from texas is recognized for one minute. mr. poe: mr. speaker, the secret nuke deal with iran over thanksgiving is alarming, saith the saudi prince. prime minister chamberlain would have been proud after the st gave the snake salesman of the dez ert. -- desert. it looks like the west was willing to sell out israel for, quote, peace in our time. saudi arabia just like check low slovakia didn't get to vote on the deal. they ever the meal in iran's hostile appetite. the news said that the united states unfroze $8 billion in iranian assets and reduced sanctions even before the united states gave away the mineral rights. isn't that lovely? iran left geneva with a smile, pockets of money and fewer sanctions. the united states got the promise
obamacare is the wrong solution for both. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? mr. poe: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from texas is recognized for one minute. mr. poe: mr. speaker, the secret nuke deal with iran over thanksgiving is alarming, saith the saudi prince. prime minister chamberlain would have...
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guest: is this under obamacare? this is before obamacare. since obamacare, my policy has gone down twice. guest: then you're getting quite a deal. that is a story i'm not hearing from any kansans. they are 30% -- caller: i am new jersey. why do you always [indiscernible] sorry? caller: i am from new jersey. i went to another state, i had no control over the price. guest: you're not allowed to buy in another state. their federal restrictions on doing that. caller: i didn't buy in new jersey. guest: ok. so your premium is going down under obamacare? caller: twice. guest: they could not have gone down twice, because the premium not has not gone down -- gone over your. caller: it is gone down twice. guest: that is unusual. there are some folks who may have reductions, but the ones that are being harmed the most, and you don't sound you're like at this age, are under 35 that thehaving massive spikes in premium costs. blue cross and blue shield of kansas where i'm from, they told us last spring there will be at 100% increase for folks under 35. th
guest: is this under obamacare? this is before obamacare. since obamacare, my policy has gone down twice. guest: then you're getting quite a deal. that is a story i'm not hearing from any kansans. they are 30% -- caller: i am new jersey. why do you always [indiscernible] sorry? caller: i am from new jersey. i went to another state, i had no control over the price. guest: you're not allowed to buy in another state. their federal restrictions on doing that. caller: i didn't buy in new jersey....
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isn't obamacare much more important than that? >> that was an oversimplification actually. >> but you have a party, the republican party that, with everybody agreeing about obamacare, they want to get rid of it, they still managed to spill an enormous amount of each other's blood fighting over this. i think they have learned some lesson about that. certainly the leaders will say it will happen again. but i want to go back to something that alex said something before about the freshness of republican ideas. i don't think the public hears that. if you listen to the presidential debates of 2012 and 2008, other than barack obama, the name that was mentioned the most was ronald reagan. they couldn't stop talking about ronald reagan. a lot of their ideas were 1980 era reagan ideas. their idea was to cut taxes. if your car breaks down, cut taxes. if you're houses on fire, cut taxes. if your lawn needs mowing, cut taxes. that was the only idea that they presented to voters. americans thought that they had very old ideas. >> they only felt
isn't obamacare much more important than that? >> that was an oversimplification actually. >> but you have a party, the republican party that, with everybody agreeing about obamacare, they want to get rid of it, they still managed to spill an enormous amount of each other's blood fighting over this. i think they have learned some lesson about that. certainly the leaders will say it will happen again. but i want to go back to something that alex said something before about the...
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obamacare. in fact, when the millions of americans currently losing their health care plans try to log on will be care.gov, they met with drastically increased emiums, skyrocketing out-of-pocket cost, and reduced access to the doctors and hospitals they know. these problems are in direct contrast to the repeated promises made by the president. my constituents are rightly concerned with these broken promises and they are regularly contacting me and my office to voice their concerns. for instance, gillian in sparta, tennessee, wrote to me, and i quote, every year in the past my health care insurance has increased by small percentages. sometimes 5%, sometimes by 7%. this past week i received my new premiums for 2014. hey increased by 250%. same plan, same coverage, same insurance company, she said. and gillian isn't alone. nearly three times as many americans say they have been hurt rather than helped by the obamacare. according to a recent poll. this from a law that the president promised would lo
obamacare. in fact, when the millions of americans currently losing their health care plans try to log on will be care.gov, they met with drastically increased emiums, skyrocketing out-of-pocket cost, and reduced access to the doctors and hospitals they know. these problems are in direct contrast to the repeated promises made by the president. my constituents are rightly concerned with these broken promises and they are regularly contacting me and my office to voice their concerns. for...
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in chief for obamacare. democrats and the president are expected to have a coordinated effort in pushing healthcare.gov. --e is a congressman's tweet what do you think about the rollout of healthcare.gov enter the president fire somebody? betty in albuquerque, new mexico. democrat. thank you for accepting my call. this particular congress that we now -- i believe the th -- hasnd 12 -- 112 title of the greatest do-nothing congress in the history of the united states. they have been held hostage by a small group of people. those group of people refer to as the tea party. they have been led by the most the housepeaker of probably in the nation's history -- mr. john boehner. obama should not fire anyone. the people who should be fired in congress. they have over and over -- over voted to repeal this has already been deemed the law of the land. useless spending the taxpayers money in the most useless of -- these are the people who should go and they will go come the midterms. president should not fire anybody. to
in chief for obamacare. democrats and the president are expected to have a coordinated effort in pushing healthcare.gov. --e is a congressman's tweet what do you think about the rollout of healthcare.gov enter the president fire somebody? betty in albuquerque, new mexico. democrat. thank you for accepting my call. this particular congress that we now -- i believe the th -- hasnd 12 -- 112 title of the greatest do-nothing congress in the history of the united states. they have been held hostage...
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list -- enrollment surge or no enrollment surge, the next obamacare challenge is a big one. how will the white house make sure people with canceled policies get new coverage by january 1? at the rate sign-ups are going, even with the speedier and newly functioning obamacare website, there is a daft distance to peoplebefore for to five get coverage.ple thatr: it is unfortunate a few country there is people willing to sacrifice. i am talking about some white people. maybe republican, maybe democrats. it is both sides. if mandela is left in public, i'm going to make the trip to south africa and be proud of it. host: james, thanks for the call. warsaw, indiana, tricia. good morning. caller: thank you for taking my call. we canwanted to say that nelsonrn a lot from mandela's life. watching him struggle, watching him fight what he knew was right and being oppressed and being in prison and still holding onto what he knew was right, i think that is what we have to do in america. andave to take his example carry it through every country. for us, we need to do that with our government
list -- enrollment surge or no enrollment surge, the next obamacare challenge is a big one. how will the white house make sure people with canceled policies get new coverage by january 1? at the rate sign-ups are going, even with the speedier and newly functioning obamacare website, there is a daft distance to peoplebefore for to five get coverage.ple thatr: it is unfortunate a few country there is people willing to sacrifice. i am talking about some white people. maybe republican, maybe...
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i think it has to do with obamacare. a lot of employers seem to be nervous about the new health care laws and how it is going to affect employers. i think a lot of people are underemployed, well under 40 hours a week. i guess that is all i have to say right now. host: thanks for making the comment. we will go to robert next from new jersey, somebody still out of a job. good morning to you, sir. caller: i think the problem we are having is we wants had a powerful production workforce. when the manufacturing jobs went, it left a void. there are a lot of technological computerized jobs people are not trained for. government needs to train people for these jobs. host: we have heard a couple of colors -- guest: we have set a couple of callers who said they did not have the skills or could not get them. there needs to be look at the trinity college system and other assets to see what we can do to get workers more qualified. to speak to the obamacare point, i think there is something to that. we have seen a lot of uncertainty.
i think it has to do with obamacare. a lot of employers seem to be nervous about the new health care laws and how it is going to affect employers. i think a lot of people are underemployed, well under 40 hours a week. i guess that is all i have to say right now. host: thanks for making the comment. we will go to robert next from new jersey, somebody still out of a job. good morning to you, sir. caller: i think the problem we are having is we wants had a powerful production workforce. when the...
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now they are coming up with this obamacare and obamacare will be just like medicare, where no doctors and hospitals want this health insurance because the federal government will not pay the bills for these elderly people. for example, my father was in the hospital with pneumonia. my dad was on his deathbed. they came in three days later, and medicare said they would not pay another penny for my dad to get him out of the hospital. they came in and told my dad, he has to pack his stuff and get out. i had to bring my dad home and nurse back to health. obamacare will come in and be just like that. people in the country will be in the hospital, sick, and the federal government will not pay for this hospitalization. these people will be out sick because they will not pay the bills. guest: it does expand medicaid for some people but for some it will be private insurance plans. with medicare, i'm sure that medicare when it was created in the 1960's, we had the baby boom generation, and all of a sudden they are medicare-eligible. for more people on medicare, living longer, and that has contri
now they are coming up with this obamacare and obamacare will be just like medicare, where no doctors and hospitals want this health insurance because the federal government will not pay the bills for these elderly people. for example, my father was in the hospital with pneumonia. my dad was on his deathbed. they came in three days later, and medicare said they would not pay another penny for my dad to get him out of the hospital. they came in and told my dad, he has to pack his stuff and get...
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since i have no life i have read obamacare. i do not see that in there where the president is getting the authority to postpone attacks, but he doesn't. if he has the legal authority to do that, which i doubt, what is to prevent him from going and looking at the irs code which is a mess. i don't know any american who thinks the code is a good bill. but rather than fix if we just make it bigger every year. so the president goes to the irs and says this group of businesses they are just having a bad year. or we can use the energy companies on the other end. i'm just going to postpone this paying income tax for a year. why? because i said so. or i will take this group and do something similar. rather than pay 38% of your just going to pay 20% for the next year. it seems to me that he has the authority to amend the taxes which the affordable healthcare tax is according to the supreme court what is to prevent him from just amending the any tax to his liking. mr. turley weigh in on this if you would. >> i have to agree first of all o
since i have no life i have read obamacare. i do not see that in there where the president is getting the authority to postpone attacks, but he doesn't. if he has the legal authority to do that, which i doubt, what is to prevent him from going and looking at the irs code which is a mess. i don't know any american who thinks the code is a good bill. but rather than fix if we just make it bigger every year. so the president goes to the irs and says this group of businesses they are just having a...
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further, the obamacare website interacts with the i.r.s. and social security administration databases thereby exposing americans to even greater risk of theft of their most private personal information. in their written testimony, these experts warn the following about the health care.gov website. quote, there are clear indicators that even basic security was not, not built into the healthcare.gov website, end quote. quote, the vast amount of healthcare.gov code also means asupplying industry standards, security practices is a task that can have no real chance of success. end quote. healthcare.gov, quote, creates massive opportunity for fraud, scams, deceptive trade practices, identity theft, and more, end quote. mr. speaker, these threats to american family finances prompted me to ask the panel of cybersecurity experts within, under obamacare, americans can seek compensation from the federal government for financial losses caused by use of healthcare.gov. in reply not one expert, not one indicated obamacare requires the federal government
further, the obamacare website interacts with the i.r.s. and social security administration databases thereby exposing americans to even greater risk of theft of their most private personal information. in their written testimony, these experts warn the following about the health care.gov website. quote, there are clear indicators that even basic security was not, not built into the healthcare.gov website, end quote. quote, the vast amount of healthcare.gov code also means asupplying industry...
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oh, yes, they did do that, with obamacare. oh, yes, they are doing it in negotiating with terrorist thugs who want us wiped off the map. same kind s is the of inane thinking that would have an american president in 1970's proclaiming the ayatollah khomeini as a man of ace, when he was a terrorist and took over a nation and its litary for the first time in terrorist, that a islamic leader had been the leader of a country. with a powerful military. another article from ownhall.com, december 5, 2013, violence against christians is rising across the middle east. endoors -- open doors u.s.a. investigates for "town hall" magazine. christians in the middle east and around the world are being persecuted, imprisoned and martyred for their faith. there's widespread systemic violence and no one in the mainstream media and government seems to have noticed. we may see the elimination and extinction of christianity in its very birth place. without a whimper of protest from the west. i got to say, if the god who protected israel in its incep
oh, yes, they did do that, with obamacare. oh, yes, they are doing it in negotiating with terrorist thugs who want us wiped off the map. same kind s is the of inane thinking that would have an american president in 1970's proclaiming the ayatollah khomeini as a man of ace, when he was a terrorist and took over a nation and its litary for the first time in terrorist, that a islamic leader had been the leader of a country. with a powerful military. another article from ownhall.com, december 5,...
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under obamacare, this arbitrary selection of 50, defining a large corporation, does not fit with the burial spirit. -- with the entrepreneurial spirit. do you think we should increase cost that of fte would trigger the affordable care act? andou believe 50 is too low we, as congress, should increase it to a number higher than 50. you need the facts and circumstances test on who has the today control. if you increase it to 50, the same thing happens beyond 50, 200.er it is 75, 150, the 30 hour rule, i believe increasing the number would alleviate the number of issues. it is a legislative fix. there would have to be a change to the statute itself. comeshink the challenge in that every industry cannot be put in the same box. of any the evaluation organization that tries to encapsulate multiple industries, there are always different materials for the industries. with a at an industry , iewhat mobile workforce think the costs are going to be significantly higher for the same number of employees, the same number of ftes, as it would for a larger workforce. >> thank you. >> yes, i think tha
under obamacare, this arbitrary selection of 50, defining a large corporation, does not fit with the burial spirit. -- with the entrepreneurial spirit. do you think we should increase cost that of fte would trigger the affordable care act? andou believe 50 is too low we, as congress, should increase it to a number higher than 50. you need the facts and circumstances test on who has the today control. if you increase it to 50, the same thing happens beyond 50, 200.er it is 75, 150, the 30 hour...
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obamacare, the company she was working for drop the insurance for the employees. hour.kes $10.35 an she tried to get on the federal program and could not do it. they were supposed to call her back but did not call her back. the cheapest we found is $900 a month. that is nearly $12,000 a year. i have a subsidy with my social security. they take out around $100 on that and the subsidy is around $150. is over 1/3, just for my health insurance, not counting my automobile and everything else. what are we going to do? there just ain't no way we can afford that kind of insurance cost. insurance,the health the prices you are talking it is, does that include -- hard to know. i couldn't tell if that included tax credits that might be eligible for based on their income. if it does and that is more than they can afford, there is no answer to that. is health insurance. if the premiums may cap more income, you dour not have to comply with the individual mandate. that calleruld do more specific information. care obama's new health fix-it man. a post just went up. can you talk ab
obamacare, the company she was working for drop the insurance for the employees. hour.kes $10.35 an she tried to get on the federal program and could not do it. they were supposed to call her back but did not call her back. the cheapest we found is $900 a month. that is nearly $12,000 a year. i have a subsidy with my social security. they take out around $100 on that and the subsidy is around $150. is over 1/3, just for my health insurance, not counting my automobile and everything else. what...
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once obamacare is fully deployed, a lot more people will have insurance. amount should go down. economists that that alone doesn't go far to explain the high bills we see. several callers waiting to talk to you. we'll try to run through them. corpus christi, texas for republicans. you're on with elizabeth rosenthal. caller: going morning. how y'all doing this morning. >> good. i want to had. have my own medical issues, but something that i found out, when the hospital is providing with this enormous invoice, round ay $40,000 for numbers. and then your pre negotiated cost through your healthcare place of ets you to a $10,000. the reason one of the main go ons the hospital has to so high they know that they're not getting that money. implication with it. they take the $30,000, the difference between what they're and what they're billing and call it a loss. arbitrary is just an made uhm number to generate a big loss for the hospital. i do understand most of them on a non-profit status from a cp technique a's perspective and that's why they inflate the bill so drastically. >> elizab
once obamacare is fully deployed, a lot more people will have insurance. amount should go down. economists that that alone doesn't go far to explain the high bills we see. several callers waiting to talk to you. we'll try to run through them. corpus christi, texas for republicans. you're on with elizabeth rosenthal. caller: going morning. how y'all doing this morning. >> good. i want to had. have my own medical issues, but something that i found out, when the hospital is providing with...
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the health care law, which requires businesses to abrogate employees and could be subjective to the obamacare employer mandate. according to the national federation of independent as is, 39% of small businesses were -- with 20 or more employees will at least 10% of one or more of their businesses. to determine the threshold of 50 or more employees has been met in the situations, the health care law utilizes the internal revenue service code controlled, group, business, abrogation rules, which are complex and confusing even to most experts. some experts have suggested that most small business owners could not interpret these rules without the guiding and -- without the guidance and related specialist.ax despite the administration's promises at the health care law would help small businesses, each week seems to bring entrepreneurs more bad news, more costly regulations, more and certainty and less incentive to grow their business and create jobs. a recent u.s. chamber of commerce international franchise association survey found that 53% of small-business owners believed the law will have a nega
the health care law, which requires businesses to abrogate employees and could be subjective to the obamacare employer mandate. according to the national federation of independent as is, 39% of small businesses were -- with 20 or more employees will at least 10% of one or more of their businesses. to determine the threshold of 50 or more employees has been met in the situations, the health care law utilizes the internal revenue service code controlled, group, business, abrogation rules, which...
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pamphlets are how the government is trying to take away your rights to own guns and obama is doing this and obamacare is terrible. those were the guys i wanted to talk to because they were the guys with the leaflets, the ideas. i said to them, is this your stuff? they said, who are you? pedantic -- i am an academic researcher doing research on these organizations and ideas, trying to understand these, and i study men who believe this stuff. and they looked at me suspiciously and said, sort of asked me questions. i just said, look, here is what i am. i don't get it. here is my job, i went to understand how you guys see the world. i want to understand your worldview. look, you will not convince me, and i will not convince you. that is off the table. what is on the table is i want to understand why you think the way you do. downward mobility, racial and gender equality, michael kimmel on the fear, anxiety, and rage of angry white men, part of book tv, this weekend on c-span two. >> now representative greg walden, chairman of the house energy subcommittee on communications and technology on his plan to u
pamphlets are how the government is trying to take away your rights to own guns and obama is doing this and obamacare is terrible. those were the guys i wanted to talk to because they were the guys with the leaflets, the ideas. i said to them, is this your stuff? they said, who are you? pedantic -- i am an academic researcher doing research on these organizations and ideas, trying to understand these, and i study men who believe this stuff. and they looked at me suspiciously and said, sort of...
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s significant role in the implementation of obamacare. if what we've seen thus far is any indication, this will be a difficult proposition both in terms of operation and enforcement. just last week, the treasury inspector general for tax and administration issued a report that found that the i.r.s. has an inadequate system in place for preventing fraudulent affordable care act premium subsidy payments from occurring and that people's personal information would be at risk. insurers and others raised questions about the income verification for the premium subsidies. they have also raised concern -- i have also raised this concern on a number of occasions. similar tax subsidy programs, for example the earned income tax credit, have improper payment rates as high as 25%. can we expect the same for the obamacare premium subsidies? these are just a few of the many potential issues i.r.s. will be facing as implementation continues. on top of that, there are proposed regulations addressing the political activities of tax exempt organizations. the
s significant role in the implementation of obamacare. if what we've seen thus far is any indication, this will be a difficult proposition both in terms of operation and enforcement. just last week, the treasury inspector general for tax and administration issued a report that found that the i.r.s. has an inadequate system in place for preventing fraudulent affordable care act premium subsidy payments from occurring and that people's personal information would be at risk. insurers and others...